Harms spread across society, enveloping Americans in pain and anger. We can find a better way.

By: Mark McCormick

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 22, 2026

Words: 914

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Many people watched the brutal, sometimes deadly, ICE apprehensions with glee.

Others posed with the so-called Alligator Alcatraz signage in Florida. Attacks on Black professionals have driven Black America, according to the National Urban League, into a recession.

For many Gen Xers, the mood in the country has felt like President Ronald Reagan’s retrenchment roughly 12 years after the end of the Civil Rights Movement. Politicians in the Confederate South have redrawn voting maps and …

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